Alright alright, let’s sit down and have a talk.

Ok look, capitalism…

I do not want to be reliant on some datacenter for my heat and data services...

that's step 1 to being reliant on them for everything. just tax the fuck out of them and use that money for government services like it's SUPPOSED to be.

They provide free copper wire, RAM, and GPUs, when a large enough contingent of locals show up to help themselves.

Or, hear me out, we dig a massive pit in the desert and fling every AI executive into it.

This is what property taxes are supposed to be for. If a data center is putting a load on a community, tax them based on what money is needed to pay for what's needed to counter that load.

Money is much more flexible than barter anyway. Imagine if instead of a data center it was an abbatoir, would you compensate the community for its troubles by giving them huge amounts of free raw meat?

I've just talked to a friend who is working on this. A few new apartment buildings will be created and a data center. They will share a Fernwärmenetz to use the warm water from the data center for heating. Won't be free, of course, but cheaper than having to get 100% of the energy from heat pumps.

Man, I was a weird kid, I always wanted to live at a data center, like Quasimodo, like the new version of an apartment over a restaurant

The only warmth I want from a data center is it's open flames.

Lol data centers aren't being built for our benefit.